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since his election, the former archbishop has won over many with his gentleness and emphasis on helng the poor. >> the stories we are from argentina are not so good. so we don't know what to think about. >> reporter: he will return to the vatican again soon to live in a converted monastery. it will be the first time in history that two popes will live side by side. >> a spokesman says the meeting between the pope and benedict was warm and casual and he didn't think the two men used former titles when speaking to each other. >>> in addition to a gun buyback, the city of san jose hosted a gang buyback earlier today. it was part of a unity day celebration in san jose. people looking to turn gang paraphernalia in santa clara county could get a gift card. one coordinator said they take whatever they can get. >> the unique portion of our event is gang attire, pocket knives, brass knuckles, etc. kids are motivated to bring them in. so we had a middle schooler drop off a bag of maybe 20 clothes items. >> more than 100 people showed up in east san jose. it >>> the bay bridge's new attraction w
since his election, the former archbishop has won over many with his gentleness and emphasis on helng the poor. >> the stories we are from argentina are not so good. so we don't know what to think about. >> reporter: he will return to the vatican again soon to live in a converted monastery. it will be the first time in history that two popes will live side by side. >> a spokesman says the meeting between the pope and benedict was warm and casual and he didn't think the two men...
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. >> the elections weren't about the need for services. people recognize that. there was a pension tax, that's what it was. find another way to deliver services. >> it took firefighters about six hours to put out the fire. two of the home airs total los -- homes are a total loss. the cause of the fire still under investigation. >>> a 3-hour standoff in vallejo ends with a man dead. nearbies in the 1,800-block of sutter street called police about a man with a rifle. he fired. police fired teargas and entered the house. they found the man dead inside. >>> a small arsenal in the hands of peninsula police tonight. the weapons were recovered from a storage unit in redwood city. palo alto police initiated the search. 12 assault rifles, 10 handguns, and over 5,000 rounds of ammunition. two men have been arrested. >>> and a muni bus versus a fire hydrant led to this earlier. no one was hurt. >>> a singer is trying to explain herself tonight after people say she made strong antigay remarks during a san francisco show. her tirade got the rest of her tour canceled. the sin
. >> the elections weren't about the need for services. people recognize that. there was a pension tax, that's what it was. find another way to deliver services. >> it took firefighters about six hours to put out the fire. two of the home airs total los -- homes are a total loss. the cause of the fire still under investigation. >>> a 3-hour standoff in vallejo ends with a man dead. nearbies in the 1,800-block of sutter street called police about a man with a rifle. he...
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--s was a bout electing about electing a constitution. one would think something as important as that would have required much more broad-based support than a measly 60 something percent. that is yet another example of this disappointing attitude their freedom and justice party has displayed with regards to deepening democratic consolidation and building a which is whatacy many people in the uprising hoped for. despite some -- what was your to finger there? i want to say a little bit more about why the brotherhood and morsi and the freedom and justice party are resisting this consensus politics. it is an important point. be sure some people making the argument that it is because they are islamist and they are bent on sticking to the plan and there is no compromising with them because they are islamists. i see it differently. i think the brotherhood is behaving very much in the way that an opposition group phot many yearsght without having a chance to come to power and behaves when it comes to power. in other words, they feel, ok, it is ou
--s was a bout electing about electing a constitution. one would think something as important as that would have required much more broad-based support than a measly 60 something percent. that is yet another example of this disappointing attitude their freedom and justice party has displayed with regards to deepening democratic consolidation and building a which is whatacy many people in the uprising hoped for. despite some -- what was your to finger there? i want to say a little bit more about...
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the election and the problems surrounding the election and the i.m.f. loan are related. at least one of the arguments that has been made by the fund and i don't think is the only argument, they cannot in good faith commit to an agreement or have egypt commit to an agreement or morsi commit to a agreement that does not have a broad based. until that transpires they are not going to, you know, give the $4.8 billion. there is more going on than that. but that is certainly one aspect of it. the other aspect of this is -- this is maybe for many of you to think about what the external role it should be. it is not the case and it has not been in the past that the international community and regional players will allow egypt to fail. it has not happened in the last 30, 40 years when egypt faced economic crisis at the end of the 1980's. they were also running out of foreign reserves and the international and the paris club came to the rescue. i think it is not going to be a situation. we've seen a talk about it and so on. the amounts of money we're talk about ar
the election and the problems surrounding the election and the i.m.f. loan are related. at least one of the arguments that has been made by the fund and i don't think is the only argument, they cannot in good faith commit to an agreement or have egypt commit to an agreement or morsi commit to a agreement that does not have a broad based. until that transpires they are not going to, you know, give the $4.8 billion. there is more going on than that. but that is certainly one aspect of it. the...
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house of parliament and the presidential election with the two-staged election, an initial election with five >> i can get into that in the q&a. it is kabul kite it while we didn't do that. -- it is confiscated why we didn't do that. before actually depict the electoral resorts graphically, and you can see where the bases have some useful to understanding of where the electorate is located within egypt. for those of you who visited the country, or perhaps hail from there, you know that most egyptians lived very close to the banks of the nile. huge expanses of territory that are mostly desert area. those are big expanses of territory, very little of the electorate. these areas that are seated in turquoise and orange, they .ontain 97% of the electorate those are the areas you want to focus on. in particular, the governance that are labeled as upper egypt , they have 20% of the vote. and giza,hat is cairo a big metropolitan area, the is a little over 20% of the vote. at some of you may not the delta, which is where the nile spans out, there is the biggest second city. a lot of smaller
house of parliament and the presidential election with the two-staged election, an initial election with five >> i can get into that in the q&a. it is kabul kite it while we didn't do that. -- it is confiscated why we didn't do that. before actually depict the electoral resorts graphically, and you can see where the bases have some useful to understanding of where the electorate is located within egypt. for those of you who visited the country, or perhaps hail from there, you know...
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>> anything that the general public elects, and we know what is elected here in san francisco, when we're looking at other places, some of them have health districts so we're trying to figure out, does it make sense and maybe this is a good question for the commission, how far down the list of offices are we looking, school board, college board, board of supervisors, what is it, five city offices, or do we want to go farther down with some place that elects a health department person or something like that, we need to figure out how far done we go, and that will probably determine what's available online because mostly all of our research is going to be online, we're not looking to go and start talking to every single county of department of elections, and if we can get enough information from that, that's what our report will be based on. >> okay, thank you. no other comments from the commission, so we can go on to our next item. >> item number 5, executive officer's report. >> no report. >> jason fried, lafco staff, i wanted to bring up a couple of brief things, we're going to be doing
>> anything that the general public elects, and we know what is elected here in san francisco, when we're looking at other places, some of them have health districts so we're trying to figure out, does it make sense and maybe this is a good question for the commission, how far down the list of offices are we looking, school board, college board, board of supervisors, what is it, five city offices, or do we want to go farther down with some place that elects a health department person or...
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this was four days before the election that year. having thought that the war was going to be over, now the president finds out the peace deal fell through because a candidate who wanted there not to be peace before the election intervened to make one sidewalk away. now, why didn't lbj say anything publicly? this is right before the election. can you imagine how the country would have reacted to that? this is a war the whole country was against. it was going to be over except candidate nixon intervened to undo the peace deal and keep the war going? can you imagine how angry the american public would have been. but lbj did not say anything publicly at the time because he thought he couldn't. the reason he thought he couldn't is the way he found out what nixon had done. the fbi illegally wire-tapped the phones of the south vietnamese ambassador. we couldn't let anybody know that we were illegally listening into the ambassador's phone lines so they couldn't let anybody know what they had heard. so nixon got away with it. and the october
this was four days before the election that year. having thought that the war was going to be over, now the president finds out the peace deal fell through because a candidate who wanted there not to be peace before the election intervened to make one sidewalk away. now, why didn't lbj say anything publicly? this is right before the election. can you imagine how the country would have reacted to that? this is a war the whole country was against. it was going to be over except candidate nixon...
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, the impending election was a postponing of the election and the problems surrounding the election and the imf loans are related. and so at least one of the arguments that have been made by the fund and i don't mean the only argument, is that they cannot in good faith commit to an agreement or has egypt commit to an agreement or have morsi commit to an agreement that does not have rod-based consensus meaning it is not approved by a legitimately elected parliament and that until that transpires, they are not going to you know, get to the $4.8 billion. there is much more going on than that. that is certainly one aspect of it and the other aspect and this is maybe four many of you to think about what the role should be is that it is not the case and it does not been the case in the past that the international community as regional players will allow egypt to fail. that is not happened in the last 30 or 40 years when egypt made based crisis at the end of the 1980s in which there were also running out of foreign reserves and couldn't pay off loans to the international paris club in the unit
, the impending election was a postponing of the election and the problems surrounding the election and the imf loans are related. and so at least one of the arguments that have been made by the fund and i don't mean the only argument, is that they cannot in good faith commit to an agreement or has egypt commit to an agreement or have morsi commit to an agreement that does not have rod-based consensus meaning it is not approved by a legitimately elected parliament and that until that...
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wheatfield in the 2012 presidential election. the 2012 field presidential election. basically from 2003 to 2006, republicans and many conservatives were loyal to bush. they adhered to more or less the bush program, including medical drugs, and i think there was a conservative case for that bill. that is another panel. but, basically, bush's job rating really crumbled in 2005 as people were watching the television violence in baghdad and new orleans, and he never really recovered. republican candidates to head mauldin themselves in the bush mold ended up not -- republican candidates who had molded themselves in the bush mold ended up not running. so you're operating in a kind of vacuum. i think there are prospects for of candidates.d congressman, is there something wrong with the process itself though? think i know some who can win a general election. is there something deterring them from getting involved? >> with my own election and other elections, what the other side is doing is to tear down that person personally. that is a tremendous burden. when you ask somebod
wheatfield in the 2012 presidential election. the 2012 field presidential election. basically from 2003 to 2006, republicans and many conservatives were loyal to bush. they adhered to more or less the bush program, including medical drugs, and i think there was a conservative case for that bill. that is another panel. but, basically, bush's job rating really crumbled in 2005 as people were watching the television violence in baghdad and new orleans, and he never really recovered. republican...
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candidate it was a fair win just like all the following elections was won i've always played by the rules and i want people who come to power after me to do the same to win an election in a fair way so you're not preparing a successor for yourself to be honest i've decided for myself that i will not even support anyone publicly so it must be conducted in a fair way the people should elect their leader themselves when the time is right i remember that during your summit this is to vent chalice was still alive and he said we have a great holiday today because our guest is to president of belorussia look at shanghai and his son and then you told him that he was right in mentioning the boy because we need someone who will continue our case someone we can pass to baten to twenty or twenty five years from now. i didn't say pass the baton i said carry on our cause i do remember very well and i said it in a very responsible way when i say carry on it doesn't mean he would just take the helm and go into the president's chair we have a million boys like junior and it's them who will continue
candidate it was a fair win just like all the following elections was won i've always played by the rules and i want people who come to power after me to do the same to win an election in a fair way so you're not preparing a successor for yourself to be honest i've decided for myself that i will not even support anyone publicly so it must be conducted in a fair way the people should elect their leader themselves when the time is right i remember that during your summit this is to vent chalice...
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minister to govern rebel held areas the election of u.s. citizen hassan he twelve members of the body to resign from the umbrella opposition group. who took part in the anti assad movement says the coalition is being guarded by islamist radicals. the coalition went too far forming a monochrome government which we can characterize as extremist the reason behind this is the mechanisms that we used to my selection of the head of government were wrong and under the ground this coalition wasn't elected it was the point and radicals make up the majority the does not match the reality of syrian society if this coalition was the result of free and fair elections then we would have accepted the results of the vote one should not deprive syrian minorities of the right to produce a bit in political life as one should not bribe the syrian liberal political groups of their rights at this stage of rebuilding our own with the coalition should not be about revolutionary power it should be made legitimate government and legitimate government should represen
minister to govern rebel held areas the election of u.s. citizen hassan he twelve members of the body to resign from the umbrella opposition group. who took part in the anti assad movement says the coalition is being guarded by islamist radicals. the coalition went too far forming a monochrome government which we can characterize as extremist the reason behind this is the mechanisms that we used to my selection of the head of government were wrong and under the ground this coalition wasn't...
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the power of to me to do the same to win an election in a fair way so you are not grooming anyone as your successor is the only i've decided for myself that i will not even support anyone publicly so it must be conducted in a fair way the people should elect their leaders themselves when the time is right . i remember that during your summit visit to venezuela when chavez was still alive he said we have a great holiday today our guests are president bush and his son and you told him he was right in mentioning the boy because we need someone who will continue of course someone we can pass the baton to twenty twenty five years from now i didn't say pass the baton i said carry on our cause i do remember it very well and i said it in a very responsible way when i say carry on it doesn't mean he would just take the helm and go into the presidents chair we have a million boys like junior and it's them who will continue the cause which look at . some time ago they will continue the work that i have been doing now here is what's on my record better use has become a sovereign and independent
the power of to me to do the same to win an election in a fair way so you are not grooming anyone as your successor is the only i've decided for myself that i will not even support anyone publicly so it must be conducted in a fair way the people should elect their leaders themselves when the time is right . i remember that during your summit visit to venezuela when chavez was still alive he said we have a great holiday today our guests are president bush and his son and you told him he was...
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i think that will be what the 2014 election will be about. >> one problem about that, on election day, by double digits, were people blamed george bush and not president obama for the economic problems in this country. he is by far the most unpopular ex-president. that was the problem with election day for you, trying to blend the obama administration for the mess in this country, where the public overwhelmingly believed it was george bush and republican congress have made that mess. >> i would suggest that romney did not do a good job of letting people have the facts that would cause them to hold the obama administration accountable for their policies. i do not take the difference and what you are saying -- >> before these two begin wrestling -- we want to expand the conversation because we want to include questions. >> i am sorry, but having worked for governor romney and president bush, i feel obliged to make a couple of points. >> take your time. [laughter] >> the bush library opens next week, and i believe as people look at his record compared to president obama's record, it will
i think that will be what the 2014 election will be about. >> one problem about that, on election day, by double digits, were people blamed george bush and not president obama for the economic problems in this country. he is by far the most unpopular ex-president. that was the problem with election day for you, trying to blend the obama administration for the mess in this country, where the public overwhelmingly believed it was george bush and republican congress have made that mess....
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there was a midterm election which was a accountability moment on iraq and 2008 election which was in many ways a real referendum on iraq as well. but beyond that, beyond that, there has not been a level of disgrace or accountability for the people that made this war happen. the people that cheer leaded the war and hundreds of thousands of iraqis. that number -- >> hundreds and thousands dead. the thing that i think we need to drive home and hubris does this, donald rumsfeld tried to connect suddam hussein to osama bin laden as early as september 2011. they tried to make this connection that didn't exist. >> meeting notes from the afternoon of 9/11 show donald rumsfeld tasking a top aide to find the best info fast, good enough to hit suddam hussein. he asks to get information of a saddam of an obl. >> what are they talking about? there's no connection between osama b suddam hussein and osama bin laden. >> the word goes out, find the connection. >> and in many ways, create the connection? >> that's right. and using incredibly dodgy and intelligence service to throw enough insinuations
there was a midterm election which was a accountability moment on iraq and 2008 election which was in many ways a real referendum on iraq as well. but beyond that, beyond that, there has not been a level of disgrace or accountability for the people that made this war happen. the people that cheer leaded the war and hundreds of thousands of iraqis. that number -- >> hundreds and thousands dead. the thing that i think we need to drive home and hubris does this, donald rumsfeld tried to...
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a normal re-election of a president election in 2012. because with the complicity of the press, the issue of romney and being a corporate predator and all of that had become as big or bigger an issue than obama's actual record in the first four years. >> so in reading, you get the impression you feel like you are surrounded by journalists that are all liberal? >> yeah. well, look. >> do they tell you what they think? >> no, they used to when i was younger and was out covering campaigns al the time, but i certainly read them, and it has not changed. >> you know what the liberals would say when they are sitting here talking to you. >> yeah. >> the conservatives whining when they have rush limbaugh and sean hannity and a lot of other talk show hosts. they have weekly standard and the washington examiner and fox news. >> yeah. well, there is an alternative conservative media that did not used to exist. >> how has that changed this world? how has that changed this town? >> washington is a liberal town. it really has not changed washington muc
a normal re-election of a president election in 2012. because with the complicity of the press, the issue of romney and being a corporate predator and all of that had become as big or bigger an issue than obama's actual record in the first four years. >> so in reading, you get the impression you feel like you are surrounded by journalists that are all liberal? >> yeah. well, look. >> do they tell you what they think? >> no, they used to when i was younger and was out...
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with just a cheerful hope it is to be honest i don't take them seriously these elections revealed who they really are so we had ten alternative candidates they only scored one point five to two percent well that's their score ok they might complain they were at a disadvantage or right let's say five percent so how am i supposed to take them seriously if they come out and preach such nonsense that people don't even accept it we didn't shut them down they preached their ideas on air even when they violated the constitution and called on everyone to take hayfork and crush the regime only one hundred people came to the central square and they included four hundred permanent opposition activists that's it and then they really set out to crush the government building where you often say democracy in belarus is just as good as in america or europe absolutely who should probably have to kowtow to your will absolutely. it's just as good trust me i can prove it right here right now that there is no dictatorship in belarus shall i very simply in just a few words this is the argument i used to co
with just a cheerful hope it is to be honest i don't take them seriously these elections revealed who they really are so we had ten alternative candidates they only scored one point five to two percent well that's their score ok they might complain they were at a disadvantage or right let's say five percent so how am i supposed to take them seriously if they come out and preach such nonsense that people don't even accept it we didn't shut them down they preached their ideas on air even when...
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elections can want save haiti, but as i said then and again tonight, the failure to hold elections will doom haiti to permanent failed state status. elections which were due in november of 2011 for the third of the country's senate for all of its 140 mayoral positions in the country and local assemblies has not been held. without the elections, unfortunately, successful development is at risk, and, in fact, will not take place because in the absence of decent government, legitimate government, and in the absence of the rule of law, haiti will not be able to maintain international support, and it will not be able to pursue the transformation that was called for after the devastating earthquake that occurred three years ago. even today, three years after the earthquake, 300,000 continue to be living in displaced camps around the capitol city. over the course of the last year, a significant number of those displaced persons have enforcibly been evicted from those camps. although the government initially carried out several successful efforts to move people from displaced camps to some orga
elections can want save haiti, but as i said then and again tonight, the failure to hold elections will doom haiti to permanent failed state status. elections which were due in november of 2011 for the third of the country's senate for all of its 140 mayoral positions in the country and local assemblies has not been held. without the elections, unfortunately, successful development is at risk, and, in fact, will not take place because in the absence of decent government, legitimate government,...
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that is less than 1% of elected republicans in the house. in the senate, there are 45 republicans, precisely one of them is on record as pro equal rights for gay people. and that's brand-new for him. that's rob portman who just came out with that position two weeks ago, after saying that his son is gay. so one senator out of 45 and two representatives out of more than 200. that's not a split in the party, that's like a sliver of the party. that's maybe even a splinter of the party, among elected officials. but as with other social issues in republican politics right now, republicans are sort of getting to the point where they don't want to change their policy position on these matters, they just don't want to be known for what their policy position is on this matter. they just want people to stop noticing it. so even though the party platform for last year's election and the republican party chairman, reince priebus, and the speaker of the house, john boehner, and the supposedly modern new republicans like marco rubio, are all on the record
that is less than 1% of elected republicans in the house. in the senate, there are 45 republicans, precisely one of them is on record as pro equal rights for gay people. and that's brand-new for him. that's rob portman who just came out with that position two weeks ago, after saying that his son is gay. so one senator out of 45 and two representatives out of more than 200. that's not a split in the party, that's like a sliver of the party. that's maybe even a splinter of the party, among...
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2010 elections. i went earlier today and looked to see what percentage of the african-american votes some of these governors got. it's not all that different. romney got 44% of women. scott in florida got 45. walker in wisconsin 48. when you look at younger voters and hispanics they did better but not dramatically. >> ifill: we don't know whether there will be a fundamental change. susan page, what's your name again, stu rothenberg? thank you both very much. >> ifill: online, you can read more about the party's self- examination, what chairman priebus said today, and find a link to the full r.n.c. report. plus, watch behind-the-scenes video dispatches from the weekend's conservative conference. that's on our politics page. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day. the supreme court considered a case involving an arizona law that makes people prove their u.s. citizenship before they register to vote. european union leaders called for a tax on savings accounts on the mediterranean island o
2010 elections. i went earlier today and looked to see what percentage of the african-american votes some of these governors got. it's not all that different. romney got 44% of women. scott in florida got 45. walker in wisconsin 48. when you look at younger voters and hispanics they did better but not dramatically. >> ifill: we don't know whether there will be a fundamental change. susan page, what's your name again, stu rothenberg? thank you both very much. >> ifill: online, you...
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in this last election, blacks went 98%? 95 percent of 94%. hispanics went 71%. sian-americans went 75%. it is not hard to figure out what is going on. i have 10 children and five are below voting age, and they all understand and understood what the tea party and what some members of your extreme right were doing against this president. they understood what the code languages were, what the shadows were, and they said we did not buy it. >> do you have a question? >> is the republican party going to understand that you ave a problem with race, and you have a problem with some members of your party that are speaking out that knows back home understand the racial overtones? the demographics going forward are not in your favor? >> i am grateful to albert gore brought willie horton into the campaign and to the attention of the country, because that is where the willie horton deal came from. it happened in democratic primaries when al gore -- -- he attacked michael dukakis or willy horton. your greater point is a critical point for republicans. i come from a state that
in this last election, blacks went 98%? 95 percent of 94%. hispanics went 71%. sian-americans went 75%. it is not hard to figure out what is going on. i have 10 children and five are below voting age, and they all understand and understood what the tea party and what some members of your extreme right were doing against this president. they understood what the code languages were, what the shadows were, and they said we did not buy it. >> do you have a question? >> is the republican...
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if you look back at that election day, a midterm election with a lot of stuff going on but the nra has fulfilled that myth. >> go ahead. >> we need to let members of congress know we have their backs in upcoming elections if they stand up and part of this conversation. we don't need to put pressure on the president and vice president, they're already leading this charge and mayor bloomberg and we need to have a conversation with those holding it up. >> well said. thank you for joining us. >>> michele bachmann says she wants to kill obama-care before it kills us all. the big panel takes on her latest lycoming up. >>> the white house tours aren't the only things being shut down because of budget cuts. find out how sequestration is making it harder to squeeze the charmin. introducing olay fresh effects' unstoppable skincare! when every day is a new adventure there's a new skin care line-up that can keep up. start fresh and finish sparkling 24/7 with new olay fresh effects. ♪ catch them if you can at olayfresheffects.com in the middle of the night it can be frustrating. it's hard to turn
if you look back at that election day, a midterm election with a lot of stuff going on but the nra has fulfilled that myth. >> go ahead. >> we need to let members of congress know we have their backs in upcoming elections if they stand up and part of this conversation. we don't need to put pressure on the president and vice president, they're already leading this charge and mayor bloomberg and we need to have a conversation with those holding it up. >> well said. thank you for...
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his latest book is "panic" about the 2012 election. paul rieckhoff, executive director and founder of the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. from 2003 to 2004 he served as army first lieutenant in iraq. let me start with michael about the cost figures. i have to call it the bs that was sold. this war was going to be paid for by cheap gas. cheap gasoline. somehow were they just going to open up the pipeline from iraq over to america? we get all that stuff? we get first dibs? we got nothing of the kind. let's start with the lives. 190,000 dead people. >> if you remember famously general eric shinseki said we would need more troops to do this and he was dismissed. remember, paul wolf wits did actually make the claim that iraqi oil revenues would be able to pay for this conflict. and not only would the selling the war point and the costs of the war, you know, in your last segment you made this great point about the media. it's even -- you can go even further than that. the media was complicit. the media took an active role in sellin
his latest book is "panic" about the 2012 election. paul rieckhoff, executive director and founder of the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. from 2003 to 2004 he served as army first lieutenant in iraq. let me start with michael about the cost figures. i have to call it the bs that was sold. this war was going to be paid for by cheap gas. cheap gasoline. somehow were they just going to open up the pipeline from iraq over to america? we get all that stuff? we get first dibs? we...
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monthst election is 20 away. that was the time to furlough out theultants and tune pollsters, send the focus groups home and toss the political if we truly know what we believe, we don't need to tell us.s [applause] know the truly seek to hearts and minds of the american substitutere is no for going out and asking them, with realof them world experience, actually hardrsations with actually working americans and that goes for finding candidates, as well. creating a government by, for the people. it means looking to our communities, our pat's, service businesses, tea party rallies and city halls for willing to lead. do you know someone who's judgment you snrust someone who doesn't just preach common sense but actually lives it? encourage her or him to run for office. are you mad at hell and think that you have a better way? run yourselves, don't let the big consultants, the big money big bad media scare you off. invalidate you. don't let them invalidate you more realo doubt have world practical experience with fami
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she will be in the general election. that's your update on election day today. but we will be right back. >>> we have a news update for you as promised. today was election day in the great state of south carolina. poll closed in south carolina roughly three hours ago. it is the special election to fill the tim scott congressional seat. he is now a senator. they moved him to the senate when jim demint resigned to run the heritage foundation. that left tim scott's seat in congress open and today was the primary to figure who was going to get to run for it. the most interesting thing is that one of the republican republican establishment is in full pr mode to try to make it seem like the war in iraq thing was actually a great idea and not the worst foreign policy disaster in maybe a century. there's paul wolfowitz defending it over the weekend, and michael o'hanlon. and donald rumsfeld saying ten years ago began the long difficult work of liberating 25 million iraqis, all who played a roll in history deserve our respect and appreciation. the nervous thing is that h
she will be in the general election. that's your update on election day today. but we will be right back. >>> we have a news update for you as promised. today was election day in the great state of south carolina. poll closed in south carolina roughly three hours ago. it is the special election to fill the tim scott congressional seat. he is now a senator. they moved him to the senate when jim demint resigned to run the heritage foundation. that left tim scott's seat in congress open...
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the question is then, will be elections soon or never? i do not want to make more than my fair share of time, but just that as the current government tried to prepare for the next election, this comes back to the system of patronage. it is well rooted in baghdad and the southern areas, but not established in the sunni areas. it would not be a good thing, definitely. >> and i would first, and going to the second part of your question, i would like to think that high-level, intensive u.s. diplomatic engagement could prevent that kind of outcome, because there are two places it could happen. either the central government could -- too much instability, cannot have acceptable elections under the could havees, or you a boycott. we are not going to play. it would either be a highly undesirable outcome, and sometimes it takes a third party to cause everybody to take a deep breath and let the emotions pass. i would like to think we could be helpful. >> it is important for the legitimacy of the elections that they happen at the same time throughout
the question is then, will be elections soon or never? i do not want to make more than my fair share of time, but just that as the current government tried to prepare for the next election, this comes back to the system of patronage. it is well rooted in baghdad and the southern areas, but not established in the sunni areas. it would not be a good thing, definitely. >> and i would first, and going to the second part of your question, i would like to think that high-level, intensive u.s....
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the syrian national coalition after the election of a new prime minister in rebel held areas top members of the body initially resigned from the umbrella opposition group after a u.s. citizen son he was for today and. who has been involved in the n.t. says radicals now dominate the coalition. the coalition went too far forming and monochrome government which we can characterize as extremists the reason behind this is the mechanisms that we used in the selection of a head of government were wrong and undemocratic this coalition wasn't elected it was appointed and radicals make up the majority does not match the reality of syrian society if this coalition was the result of free and fair elections then we would have accepted the results of the vote one should not deprive syrian minorities of the right to participate in political life as one should not to bribe the syrian liberal political groups of their rights at this stage of rebuilding our homeland the coalition should not be about revolutionary power it should be about a legitimate government of the german government should represent th
the syrian national coalition after the election of a new prime minister in rebel held areas top members of the body initially resigned from the umbrella opposition group after a u.s. citizen son he was for today and. who has been involved in the n.t. says radicals now dominate the coalition. the coalition went too far forming and monochrome government which we can characterize as extremists the reason behind this is the mechanisms that we used in the selection of a head of government were...
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if you're not willing to use your political capital why are you being elected to office. cenk: i want to blow your mind a little more. harry reid said today that they might not have 60 votes for federal gun registry. do you know how many -- i'm sorry, just a background check. that would be 92% 92% of americans support it, but they might not have enough support in the senate. we don't have a democracy, we don't have a democracy. our votes don't matter. in the end the only thing that matters is the paychecks they get from special interests. great reporting. thank you for joining us. as you can tell, i'm worked up about this. now, when we come back, more things i'm worked up about. where am i moving to next? i'll tell you iraq, you want to talk about worked up, republicans, we don't have any money, we don't have any money. we might have had if you hasn't blown $2 trillion in iraq, you losers. "young turks." >> at least a dozen blacks highly coordinated. coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle r
if you're not willing to use your political capital why are you being elected to office. cenk: i want to blow your mind a little more. harry reid said today that they might not have 60 votes for federal gun registry. do you know how many -- i'm sorry, just a background check. that would be 92% 92% of americans support it, but they might not have enough support in the senate. we don't have a democracy, we don't have a democracy. our votes don't matter. in the end the only thing that matters is...
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. >> it's not the fault of the lawmakers, it's the fault of election process. when you get elected, what's the first thing you want to do? you want to get reelected. in order to get reelected you need to bring the goodies to your constituency. unless there's a law or change the election process, that's going to continue add infini infinitem, forever. it's unfortunate, it's sad. unless there's a-- unless we outlaw pork, i don't see anything changing. >> brenda: we have ourselves to blame at the bottom. but jonas, let's talk about all the fork projects. this has been going on forever and ever and both parties love to feast on pork. in fact, you can't cut it out all at once, right? >> i imagine if they cut it out completely there would be no passing of any bills because it doesn't add up to a whole lot, but boils down to, it's not going to balance the budget. and second, it's the bribe use today get the senators in congress to vote for these bigger, more important bills which would never get passed if you couldn't-- you're getting a bridge and you're getting this
. >> it's not the fault of the lawmakers, it's the fault of election process. when you get elected, what's the first thing you want to do? you want to get reelected. in order to get reelected you need to bring the goodies to your constituency. unless there's a law or change the election process, that's going to continue add infini infinitem, forever. it's unfortunate, it's sad. unless there's a-- unless we outlaw pork, i don't see anything changing. >> brenda: we have ourselves to...
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only first elected to the house in 2010. only had one term when he got the nod to move to the senate. thanks to that appointment, he was the first african-american senator south carolina has ever had. now it is his seat in the house that is vacant. and tomorrow, democrats and republicans hold their primary elections to try to fill that seat. on the democratic side, the nominee is expected to be elizabeth colbert bush. her brother uses a fancier pronunciation of the name, known as stephen colbert. on the republican side, the front runner almost as famous as stephen colbert and more famous than his sister but not for a good reason, former governor mark sanford. he has a big national profile, but it is because of his fake hiking trip. mark sanford apologized, finished his term as governor and withdrew from public life for two years. now he is back, trying to win back the public's trust and respect by trying to win back the congressional seat that he once held for three terms. mr. hiking the trail is only one of 16 republicans t
only first elected to the house in 2010. only had one term when he got the nod to move to the senate. thanks to that appointment, he was the first african-american senator south carolina has ever had. now it is his seat in the house that is vacant. and tomorrow, democrats and republicans hold their primary elections to try to fill that seat. on the democratic side, the nominee is expected to be elizabeth colbert bush. her brother uses a fancier pronunciation of the name, known as stephen...
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he says this is the issue of this election. whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or we abandon the american revolution and confess to the little intellectual leap to a far distant capitol can plan our lives bet than we can plan them for ourselves. the best single book on moving out of bureaucracycy where you the citizen is empowered to solve your own problems. this talks about where we are in the republican party. the best book from the former mayor of san francisco and it is called "citizenville." everyone should read it because it is a textbook on all the opportunities in information age to get rid of government and replace it. but it embraces the new world and the pioneers who are creating the future who are not trapped in the past. reagan came to cpac, probably the most important cpac speech. he said "people look for a ourse to believe in. " now i believe that i'm arguing that part of that clarity has to be a better future for all americans with new ideas and new solutions that take the principles of our o
he says this is the issue of this election. whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or we abandon the american revolution and confess to the little intellectual leap to a far distant capitol can plan our lives bet than we can plan them for ourselves. the best single book on moving out of bureaucracycy where you the citizen is empowered to solve your own problems. this talks about where we are in the republican party. the best book from the former mayor of san francisco and it is...
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i think karl rove knows how to win elections. he won two with george bush. palin was a successf fuful -- i alaska. she was -- you know, she had a -- >> you're so cold about this. i have never seen -- i mean, i don't agree with anything she says. but that is a political genuine article. she puts a better show -- that's why she died on fox. that booth she was up in wasilla didn't work on the stage. moving around. obviously a very attractive person. moving around on that stage. look how she dominates that stage. what is that if it isn't p politics? >> she's a great show person. very good speech maker. she wasn't a particularly good governor. she quit mid-term. i think that killed her. she really can't articulate in any convincing way a governing philosophy that works in the future. >> let me ask you, michael, can you squeeze the juice out of a grapefruit and still sell it? >> watching these two up there -- >> answer my questions. can you squeeze the juice out of a political movement, the movement of crazy, and just get the architecture and still have a winning
i think karl rove knows how to win elections. he won two with george bush. palin was a successf fuful -- i alaska. she was -- you know, she had a -- >> you're so cold about this. i have never seen -- i mean, i don't agree with anything she says. but that is a political genuine article. she puts a better show -- that's why she died on fox. that booth she was up in wasilla didn't work on the stage. moving around. obviously a very attractive person. moving around on that stage. look how she...
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soda addicts. [ laughter ] shelby county al alabama is that since america elected a black man ipso facto we're free now of racism. although i guess corollary would be by their own reasoning if you didn't vote for him e oh, yeah, okay. [laughter] the point is shelby county alabama sees the voting rights act less as an effective bull worth less effective and more like orthodonta, nice but no longer needed in needed in t. meaning it's straightened out the problem and you can remove it because it's straightened. you know what i'm saying. [ laughter ] when was the last time any state on the list of previously discriminating states tried to cook up voting shenanigans but were stopped. >> the justice department has rejected i.d. laws in texas and south carolina. >> jon: yeah but that was last year. it was like six taylor swift breakup songs ago. [laughter] the point isn't that the voting rights act is stopping discrimination before it happens, it's why can't we go back to the old model of discriminating first and stopping it later? [laughter] as divisive as this issue is imagine the renewal of
soda addicts. [ laughter ] shelby county al alabama is that since america elected a black man ipso facto we're free now of racism. although i guess corollary would be by their own reasoning if you didn't vote for him e oh, yeah, okay. [laughter] the point is shelby county alabama sees the voting rights act less as an effective bull worth less effective and more like orthodonta, nice but no longer needed in needed in t. meaning it's straightened out the problem and you can remove it because it's...
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do you think they have a point then why is germany being soft well i think there are upcoming elections and that's the point the bailout will not go on like it ever did for. european union the troika soon and bails out the banks but in this point of a demand what is in principle ok that creditors of banks have to participate in the debt cuts. and support that's right but not like they do it here one reason for the separate crisis was a weak regulations from the e.u. which i love to. cook at books and so why is the euro putting all the blame on cyprus. well i don't know now we're in a complicated situation and why the european union is so harsh i cannot explain for chancellor merkel it's the elections upcoming in september. that's why she demands. people of so i just have to. carry birds your however for me this cannot be alert solution. you know greece has actually pledged six hundred million euros to help cyprus why aren't we seeing such solidarity from other parts of europe and well there is solidarity when i speak to the people here in bavaria there is solidarity they are willing to
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remember the right wing talk before the 2012 election about bad polling? several polls show the country's views on same-sex marriage are now shifting in favor of marriage equality. here's the "washington post"/abc poll just last week. 58% said it should be legal. just 36% illegal. >>> enter gary bower. president of the american values. a conservative group opposed to gay marriage. on fox yesterday, bower was asked whether he was concerned that public opinion does not line up with his group's position. >> do you worry that this only puts the republican party further out of touch with the mainstream of american voters? >> no, i'm not worried about it because the polls are skews, chris. just this past november, four states, very liberal states, voted on this issue. my side lost all four of those votes. but my side had 45%, 46% of the vote in all four of those liberal states. in fact, those marriage amendments that i supported that would keep marriage a man and a woman outran mitt romney and four liberal states by average of four points. >> all right. >> even
remember the right wing talk before the 2012 election about bad polling? several polls show the country's views on same-sex marriage are now shifting in favor of marriage equality. here's the "washington post"/abc poll just last week. 58% said it should be legal. just 36% illegal. >>> enter gary bower. president of the american values. a conservative group opposed to gay marriage. on fox yesterday, bower was asked whether he was concerned that public opinion does not line up...
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should john boehner and eric cantor dress more like dale earnhardt jr jr corporations are dominating our elections like never before with forcing them to reveal their donors like nascar drivers do keep them honest and later in the show your take my take a live segment your chance to call in and ask a question or make a comment why. you need to know this let's talk about how economies work i mean about how they really work what drives economies what makes them work and economy in a way is a giant interlocking circle with all kinds of pieces that go to it but let's start at the most important point and there's demand in their supply and let's begin with the demand there are two things that make up demand and one of those two things is made up of two things these two things that make up demand our paychecks money in people's pockets and needs or desires now needs when you think of you know like housing people at the spend money on housing food people that spend money on food but there's certain kinds of housing or food that them i like better or more than others and so you know that they will choose
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your party has had a very bad report this past election. let's talk about young people, in order to make people feel better about being republicans, your chair right now, mr. priebus, is saying let's talk more positively about gays, about more different views on issues, but he's really not doing anything. >> no, and that's going to be -- >> he's not telling anybody to change. >> in one sense you're not saying anything new. you didn't need to spend $10 million to figure that out. it's very obvious after the election, just after 2006 and 2008. we had a people problem. it's beyond the message. it's how we connect to people and how they respond. number two, with respect to young people they are going to be the outcome determinative factor for the party. the future will rest in their hands, and their attitudes are shifting and changing, and how the national leadership begins to reshape the argument. i mean, look, we are a party that believes very firmly in the marriage between a man and a woman. how do you express that without alienating those w
your party has had a very bad report this past election. let's talk about young people, in order to make people feel better about being republicans, your chair right now, mr. priebus, is saying let's talk more positively about gays, about more different views on issues, but he's really not doing anything. >> no, and that's going to be -- >> he's not telling anybody to change. >> in one sense you're not saying anything new. you didn't need to spend $10 million to figure that...
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he was elected speaker and then dumped as speaker. they wanted to get rid of him and they held a majority and here is a party which manages to get back to speakership in the majority position and thanks in part to newt's amazing campaign skills. he can't govern. they dump him and he comes out and brags and at least i can be an executive. >> explain. >> look, he's always viewed himself as an executive as this grand figure, historical figure who led his party to the majority and can do so once again, and i think he viewed at the time and he viewed santorum as a junior partner and even when he was losing badly i think he still viewed santorum as a junior partner and in fairness you have to get up and look in the mirror and think you can be president or else you can't get out on the campaign trail day after day after day doing what these guys do. the campaign did revolve around trashing romney as one republican called another these day, a moderate. that was a big knock on him. here was santorum at last year's cpac. >> we're not going to w
he was elected speaker and then dumped as speaker. they wanted to get rid of him and they held a majority and here is a party which manages to get back to speakership in the majority position and thanks in part to newt's amazing campaign skills. he can't govern. they dump him and he comes out and brags and at least i can be an executive. >> explain. >> look, he's always viewed himself as an executive as this grand figure, historical figure who led his party to the majority and can...